Retroist Airplane Podcast

Welcome to the Retroist Airplane Podcast. On today’s show we talk all about the 1980 comedy hit movie, Airplane! This is a movie that is very quotable. So if you hear people making hilarious movie reference, odds are they are from this film or Caddyshack. On the show, I talk about the pre-production, the writers/directors, the cast and cameos, production and much much more.

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Does anyone here speak jive? Oh Airplane, I cannot properly confess my true love for you. My brother and I went to see this movie over twenty times in the actual movie theater! I think we may have been some of the first few people who could recite the entire movie line by line! Now it’s hard to find people who can’t do that.

I always like to point out the creatives team first movie which was in a similar vein, The Kentucky Fried Movie. If you have not seen the Kentucky Fried Movie, do yourself a favor and rent it now. It has all the same types of humor, but it is way more racy in nature with its humor.

Rex Kramer aka the great Robert Stack:
“Loneliness, that’s the bottom line. I was never happy as a child… Christmas, Ted, what does that mean to you? It was living hell. Do you know what it’s like falling in the mud and getting kicked, in the head? With an iron boot? Of course you don’t, no one does, that never happens. Sorry, Ted, it’s a dumb question, skip that.”